Re: Suspend to disk

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Matt Price wrote:
> On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > Antonio Paiva wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to
> > > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend
> > > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > Please, if you get any progress or regress, let us know! I'd
> > love to be able to have my UPS make my computer suspend to
> > disc when it started to run down.
>
>
> for that I'm pretty sure you would want both suspend2 (suspends very
> reliably, make your kernel w/out initrd though which means ext2 & ext3
> as pats of kernel, not as modules) & acpi (reads power-related signals
> from power button etc).  I have both working on a desktop w/ 2.6.13.4
> kernel, I love it!  Now if only I could get suspend2, acpi, and pcmcia
> all working in the smae kernel build, my laptop would be just as good
> (sigh).

Unfortunately, I can't boot with acpi on. I'm using 2.6.10 kernel.
Wouldn't like to have to rebuild the kernel just to make my UPS
suspend to disc.

Mike
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